In Brief: Missing captain has $75,000 warrant for his arrest

SAN FRANCISCO -- Authorities say there is an outstanding arrest warrant for a missing captain who may have abandoned his fishing boat when it got stranded off a popular San Francisco beach.

Santa Clara County sheriff's Sgt. Kurtis Stenderup said Tuesday that a $75,000 arrest warrant was issued for Timothy Lybrand, of Santa Cruz, when he failed to appear in court in 2012 on drug charges.

The Coast Guard called off its hours-long search for Lybrand on Monday after scouring an area around Ocean Beach where the 40-foot vessel ran aground.

Lt. Theo Vaughan said a team pulled the capsized boat close to shore Tuesday, but didn't see Lybrand inside.

Officials said Lybrand called other boaters seeking help and intimated he would try to swim to shore wearing a lifejacket.

Hawaii stocks up on water as 2 major storms loom

HONOLULU -- Hawaii residents loaded up on bottled water and canned meat Tuesday in preparation for the unusual threat of a hurricane and tropical storm barreling toward the islands.

Two big storms so close together is rare in the eastern Pacific, and Hurricane Iselle could hit by Friday and Tropical Storm Julio could hit two or three days later, weather officials said.

It's unclear how damaging the storms could be, but those throughout the islands aren't taking any chances. A grocery store in the coastal Oahu community of Waianae opened 15 minutes early Tuesday because people were already lining up to buy supplies. Bottled water and cans of Spam and Vienna Sausage were flying off the shelves, said Tamura's Supermarket general manager Charlie Gustafson.

"Just about every shopping cart I see has at least one case of bottled water. Some as many as eight," he said. "It's all flowing out very fast."

5-year-old shoots, injures 3-year-old in Colorado

PUEBLO, Colo. -- Police said that a 5-year-old playing with a gun shot and injured a 3-year-old girl in Colorado.

The girl was in critical but stable condition Monday after the shooting. The Pueblo Chieftain reported that police believe two other children were playing with a handgun in the backyard of a home.

Police said a 9-year-old boy got the handgun from the house and that a 5-year-old got the gun and pointed it at the girl. The gender of the 5-year-old was not disclosed.

The victim's mother was home at the time but hasn't been identified.

The child who shot the 3-year-old will not be charged with a crime.

But the mother's boyfriend, who owns the gun, 22-year-old Adrian Chavez, was arrested and faces child abuse charges for allegedly leaving the weapon unattended.

Wyoming couple accused of keeping child in a cage

LARAMIE, Wyo. -- Authorities in Wyoming are pressing felony charges against a man and a woman alleging they kept a 7-year-old child in an outdoor cage.

The Laramie Boomerang reported that the child's mother and the man face one count each of child abuse and three counts each of felonious restraint.

The pair were arrested July 24 after Albany County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a tip that the child was caged outside a home on Fox Creek Road.

Inside the cage, deputies discovered a cot, clothing, books, a toothbrush, toothpaste and a five-gallon bucket, according to court documents.

The man faces a circuit court hearing Thursday. The mother already has been bound over to district court.

Deputies said the child reported living in the cage on and off for three weeks, taking meals there and sleeping there.